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Missing My Wedding Ring For a Day

All day Friday, I was without my wedding ring. It’s a weird feeling. Just about everyone has probably had that “naked” feeling when they don’t have on their watch or underwear – hasn’t everyone forgotten to put on their underwear at some time? . . . Me neither – but having that feeling for not having on something so really small as a ring is strange.
 
I took it off Thursday evening for my workout. Ever since I lost my middle-age fat padding, my ring rests loose on my finger. When I’m doing my P90X or Insanity, it feels like it could whip off my finger due to the fast exercises and sweating. So I take it off and set it next to the TV. Well, this time I forgot to put it back on after the workout.
 
So Friday, all day, I kept feeling my ring’s absence. Whenever I had to stick my hand into my jeans pocket, I noticed it didn’t snag. Whenever I put my hands together into a double fist, I noticed nothing hard pressing against any finger. (I usually put my elbows on my desk and fold my hands together, sort of like a prayer pose, when I reading my computer screen.) And whenever I just had my left hand up in front of my face, pointing at something or just talking with my hands I tend to do, my eyes noted the gold band was missing.
 
Really, a ring is such a small thing, you’d think it could hardly be missed in a daily routine. But man, it’s absence bugged me all day. I almost felt unbalanced without its tiny weight.
 
When I first started wearing the band, I used to take it off all the time and play with it. Before getting married, I had never really worn any kind of jewelry. I often even went without a watch on my arm. It took me a couple of years before I got used to the ring on my hand. I had a fidgety habit of taking it off and spinning it on a table. I haven’t done that in many a year, now.
 
I wear the ring to bed, in the shower, everywhere. Taking it off for workouts, I’ve only been doing for some months, and that’s only for about an hour at a time, a few evenings a week.
 
When I put it back on Friday night, I immediately felt better. Whole. Balanced. I don’t know if I could have slept that night without it. Strange, that feeling. But that little ring has come to feel like a part of my body, and missing it makes me uncomfortable.
 
Am I alone in this? Do you feel weird if you don’t have on your wedding ring?
 
Bullgrit

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